Acres Quote by Henry David Thoreau

If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that…

— Wallace Stegner

It only makes sense to have the people managing hundreds of millions of acres of land located near that land and accessible to those…

— Lauren Boebert

Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save…

— Bill Mollison

Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We…

— Edward Abbey

The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To develop a national park is to not have one.”

— Lee H. Whittlesey

Mechanized recreation already has seized nine-tenths of the woods and mountains; a decent respect for minorities should dedicate the other tenth to wilderness.

— Aldo Leopold

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so…

— Abraham Lincoln

It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are…

— Enos Mills

Recreation was important because we didn't have any. Here we were a water district and growing by leaps and bounds. It was too large…

— Paul Adams

I think our forests should be preserved as much as humanly possible for recreation and just for enjoyment of the natural beauty of Pennsylvania.

— Ed Rendell

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

— James Bryce